Comments on: Thunder Blasts uTorrent’s Market Share Away

By: Test

Test — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 03:44:00 +0000

just testing

By: µTorrent ei olekaan suosituin BitTorrent-ohjelma | Digilelut

µTorrent ei olekaan suosituin BitTorrent-ohjelma | Digilelut — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:13:21 +0000

[...] ei uusimpien mittausten mukaan olekaan suosituin BitTorrent-ohjelma, vaan kärkipaikkaa pitääkin kiinalainen Xunlei. Uusin selvitys tutki 357 miljoonaa latausta, joista Xunlein osuus oli 29,3 prosenttia. µTorrent [...]

By: nunca nueve » Google vs The Pirate Bay

nunca nueve » Google vs The Pirate Bay — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:00:35 +0000

[...] del programa de P2P més gran del món? Ara ha quedat gegant, però així és. Xunlei es diu, i té més usuaris que el [...]

By: Chinese Authorities Shut Down BitTorrent Sites « My blog at Servage :)

Chinese Authorities Shut Down BitTorrent Sites « My blog at Servage :) — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:10:30 +0000

[...] reported here on TorrentFreak a few days ago, BitTorrent is very popular China, with its main torrent client usage even surpassing that of [...]

By: Free Citizen Of The World

Free Citizen Of The World — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:16:02 +0000

It is no surprise at all unless you are insular.

What has happened to torrentfreak, looking through recent articles I see a lot of lazy, incompetent, bias, poorly researched reporting more like tabloid sensationalizm that journalizm, & according to circulating rumors most people bearing the brunt are not getting a right of reply even afterwards, let alone a chance to comment before the article is published as should be the hallmark of good journalizm.

Shame, shame , shame.

By: okman

okman — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:21:46 +0000

Recently I came across a torrent search engine – http://edics.info which claim that has access to more than 5 million torrents . My question is – what do we need trackers for than???

By: Dccafe

Dccafe — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:03:43 +0000

i used utorrent only when i am downloading “english torrents”
Chinese subbed anime > Bitcomet
English(en.subbed) movies > utorrent
Games,asian movies, Music > ed2k(verycd.com)

as for softwares,M$ OS…HTTP ==.==

i use thunder only when a torrent has no seeders… since anyone who uses the “official thunder” shares whatever they have downloaded…
**it does not scan you hard drive
**there are patches or modded version out their that disable uploading of downloaded files.
**thunder has it own servers that saves all popular p2p files…
paid vip members can download them like http.

by the way… even the chinese p2p communities ban/dislike thunder…
simply because the way it shares…
eg.it wouldn’t upload to a utorrent client unless there are no more thunder client in the list…

By: Chinese Authorities Shut Down BitTorrent Sites @ blog.idtorrent.org

Chinese Authorities Shut Down BitTorrent Sites @ blog.idtorrent.org — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:56:47 +0000

[...] reported here on TorrentFreak a few days ago, BitTorrent is very popular China, with its main torrent client usage even surpassing that of [...]

By: Chinese Authorities Shut Down BitTorrent Sites @ blog.idtorrent.org

Chinese Authorities Shut Down BitTorrent Sites @ blog.idtorrent.org — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:56:47 +0000

[...] reported here on TorrentFreak a few days ago, BitTorrent is very popular China, with its main torrent client usage even surpassing that of [...]

By: Denis

Denis — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:59:26 +0000

150)
yes, sure. Bittorent client (Mainline) and uTorrent are by same brand
… Bittorrrent Inc. (seat in USA)

However,,, Vuze (Azureus) i a half open source and a half proprietary by
Vuze Inc.

That (all 3 clients) is questionable about privacy and safety.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:47:42 +0000

I don’t quite agree…it’s only big in China, because China itself is big…lol.

When I browse my peer lists, the most common clients I run across are BitTorrent, Utorrent and Azureus…

Azureus probably being most popular followed by utorrent……..which AFAIK, is now really, BitTorrent/Mainline…?

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Molti siti BitTorrent chiusi in Cina « YBlog — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:19:57 +0000

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By: Molti siti BitTorrent chiusi in Cina

Molti siti BitTorrent chiusi in Cina — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:42:32 +0000

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By: Chinese Authorities Shut Down BitTorrent Sites - News from the technology world - Technology News

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:27:38 +0000

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By: Denis

Denis — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:18:27 +0000

Is fastest – but only in China … hehe

By: William

William — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:58:51 +0000

Not surprising at all. Actually, I’m using Thunder all the time. The reason? Because it’s the fastest. I tried uTorrent, BitComet and some others, but no one can even catch up with Thunder. I don’t know why, but that’s what I got. So I stick with Thunder. Besides the BT download, it also speeds up your HTTP downloads (I would say most of them) up to the limit of your bandwidth.

By: Chinese Authorities Shut Down BitTorrent Sites – FUCK THE RIAA

Chinese Authorities Shut Down BitTorrent Sites – FUCK THE RIAA — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:16:16 +0000

[...] reported here on TorrentFreak a few days ago, BitTorrent is very popular China, with its main torrent client usage even surpassing that of [...]

By: Yatti420

Yatti420 — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:44:19 +0000

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By: Chinese Authorities Shut Down BitTorrent Sites | InstantIdiocy

Chinese Authorities Shut Down BitTorrent Sites | InstantIdiocy — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:40:45 +0000

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By: test

test — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:21:21 +0000

@14:You ever see Thunder when you download?
no, because they only transfer to Thunder only. But they leech other clients

By: test

test — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 06:16:51 +0000

actually this Thunder thing is not even welcomed by many active Chinese eMule seeders (most of them use DLP to ban Thunder from downloading from them).

so don’t claim everything as “prejudiced and biased against anything Chinese”. It’s bad, so it’s bad, no matter where it’s from :)

btw, I’m Chinese as well.

By: test

test — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 06:11:46 +0000

@142: having an option for seeding doesn’t mean it actually seeds to other clients. Thunder’s behavior is that it uploads _way_ more to other Thunder clients than other “normal” clients.

If you try to download a torrent in a Chinese site you’ll notice that – by using Azureus or uTorrent you can only get a speed of 10kB/s or so, while Thunder can get more than 100kB/s. The only reason is most of the peers use Thunder as well.

Plus, there is no way to make new torrents or seed existing files not downloaded by Thunder by using Thunder.

@128: well that’s an unfortunate thing, but I don’t think you need to attack all Chinese :)

By: Bobe-On (The Right to Remain Silent)

Bobe-On (The Right to Remain Silent) — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 04:30:57 +0000

On Dec 06, 2009 at 05:41, Silent Bob wrote:

open source software in general is inferior to closed source.

“Myth #2…
If open source software isn’t reliable enough to use, then the Internet isn’t reliable enough, because the Internet infrastructure relies heavily on Open Source software.”
- Tim O’Reilly

So, lets see some evidence behind these claims…

I’ve wiresharked the client countless times, found no spying packets anywhere.

“Wireshark is a free [GPL license] packet analyzer computer application. It is used for network troubleshooting, analysis, software and communications protocol development, and education. Originally named Ethereal”
– Wikipedia

;)

It’s all based on paranoia and plain old ignorance.

Took the words right out of your mouth. ;)

By: malai

malai — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:47:24 +0000

Xunlei is the Mandarin name of Thunder and they are the same product.

Xunlei is not a leecher client in that it does seed during downloads and can be made to seed after downloads.

It can do bittorrent, emule and file hoster downloads. No other bittorent clients can do that.

Its claim to fame in Malaysia is due to its alleged ability to spoof http header and bypassed the local ISP’s throttling.

There is a Malaysian’s modified version of Xunlei with English translation by Hehehe Hunter in standard installation version and the portable version. Before you dis it, you should at least try it. Most of the commentators have not tried it and are clearly ignorant, prejudiced and biased against anything Chinese.

By: MeaCulpa

MeaCulpa — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:13:17 +0000

Now you ppl believe there IS freedom and Human Rights in China, haha

By: MeaCulpa

MeaCulpa — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:11:24 +0000

Sad to see leecher rules.

By: Denis

Denis — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:34:36 +0000

Yeah, absolutelly.

Deluge is clean, fast, feautre-rich, cross-platform,

Interface is clone of uTorrent.

There is no need to support Bittorrent Inc. by your testing, heh…

By: Man-o-man

Man-o-man — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:16:07 +0000

Deluge still gets no love eh?

That’s cool. It still profits from uTorrent’s PEX & with trackerless torrenting becoming more & more popular Deluge’s speeds are surpassing uTorrent. If you use uTorrent, you need trackers… Lots of them or your speeds turn to moot.

By: monyxie

monyxie — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:51:15 +0000

fuxk thunder, cause it fuxks me everyday

By: harwey

harwey — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:11:38 +0000

Bitcomet

By: Transmission

Transmission — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:22:51 +0000

Transmission FTW!

By: uread

uread — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:11:42 +0000

Xunlei is 100% leecher. But it has some features far more advanced than other similiar applications. It incorporates http, ftp, emule, bittorrent downloads all in one. When you do a http download, it connets you to all sites with the file with the help of its huge database. Really super fast.

By: group-b

group-b — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:18:19 +0000

OneSwarm is probably detected
under “Vuze” or “Bittyrrant”

By: group-b

group-b — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:16:12 +0000

I tried almost 30 BT clients so far,
and find only these 5 suit my needs, good or open licence, trustfully brand (not threat)

Tixati,BitSpirit, Deluge,BitComet,OneSwarm,
KTorrent, Halite, Transmission

By: group-b

group-b — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:12:58 +0000

BT clients comparations

_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_BitTorrent_clients
_http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-bittorrent-client.htm
_http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/File-Sharing/
_http://fileforum.betanews.com/browse/WWW-Internet/File-Sharing/new
_http://en.softonic.com/windows/bittorrent

By: group-b

group-b — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:11:31 +0000

-not Bittorrent Inc. (bittorrent_com, utorrent_com)
-not Vuze Inc. (vuze_com, azureus_sourceforge_net)
-not spyware fakes like almost all of rest clients
-not BT unfriednly clients like FlashGet, Xunlei
-not features poor (Wyzo, Opera, Miro, Tribler)
-not very old unactive development (ABC, Bittornado, Bittyrrant)

By: group-b

group-b — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:09:22 +0000

why my posts are still censored ????

By: ytg

ytg — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:34:15 +0000

that means there is less seeders, xunlei is a fxxking leech client by fxxking chinese and you cannot make seed torrent by it.
100% xunlei = 100% no seed !
I’m no doubt chinese is fxxking clever, that’s a good anti-p2p way and they got what they want, isn’t it?

By: test

test — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:22:52 +0000

not really a good news. This Thunder thing is a leecher client and upload to Thunder much more than other “normal” clients (that’s why it’s “faster” as Thunder can download from other Thunder peers while other clients can’t) and already ruined the environment of Chinese P2P (BT/eMule) networks.

btw, I’m from China.

By: test

test — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:20:53 +0000

not really a good news. This Thunder thing is a leecher client and upload to Thunder much more than other “normal” clients and already ruined the environment of Chinese P2P (BT/eMule) networks.

btw, I’m from China.

By: soul

soul — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:23:05 +0000

Actually it’s nothing surprising, xunlei has been the most popular bittorrent client long time ago. I’m from Malaysia and most of my friend use that. Why? Because you can get the most speed out of bittorrent and now the client even feature offline downloading which similars to those torrentflux service.

By: Ivanovic

Ivanovic — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 06:59:59 +0000

Never believe and go for chinese shit!. I presonally can’t trust the slant eyes.

Anyway, right, who gives a f*** what china uses or not ? its not in this world anyway :P

By: ?????

????? — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:14:33 +0000

Also,

@Silent Bob:

Wireshark, previously Ethereal, is open source. Kthnx.

By: ?????

????? — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:08:15 +0000

TorrentFreak editors’ unawareness of Xunlei doesn’t really say much. Most communities formed around private, ratio-keeping, fair-play trackers have long known about both Xunlei and its users’–Chinese or otherwise–habits. Xunlei is popular because, in addition to having Chinese interface, it is a cheating client. Quite a few private trackers have banned Xunlei.
I’m not saying all Chinese BT users cheat trackers or that all ratio cheaters are Chinese but China’s overall a big contributor to ratio-cheating, as well as other activities detrimental to publicly-available grassroots services on the Internet (Chinese trojans, dialers, all other sorts of malware, and “SEO” are all over the Internet).
Not to mention, the Chinese government’s stranglehold on Chinese citizens ‘net access means they can’t be as much generous about their bandwidth and as much careless about their “network collision cross-section,” their “footprint,” as are users from less restrictive regions.

By: Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV

Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:57:24 +0000

At the risk of sounding like a noob, I’ve never even heard of Thunder/Xunlei.

By: hmmm

hmmm — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:19:17 +0000

Soon TF will discover China has a giant search engine called baidu, that’s nearly as big as google…

Yes indeed, the US aren’t the center of the world.

Also, Santa doesn’t exist.

By: Anon

Anon — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:42:35 +0000

But it’s closed source + windows only = fail.

By: fair talk

fair talk — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:22:22 +0000

xunlei is the most stable and fast download…